Join Iain Parkinson, Wakehurst’s Head of Landscape & Horticulture as he reflects on the beauty and importance of meadows.

Scientists at RBG Kew and Queen Mary University of London have found evidence that young ash tree populations are evolving ...

Botanical art is a vital part of studying plants and fungi. It’s how scientists can highlight the key differences between species and helps them to understand how they are related to each other. But ...

Wakehurst in Sussex has announced ‘The Buzz About Trees’, an innovative new study that harnesses cutting-edge bioacoustics technology to monitor bee abundance. With wild bee populations in decline, ...

We’ve hit an exciting new milestone on our multimillion-pound Digitisation Project having imaged our entire Fungarium collection, helping make it accessible to everyone around the world, for free via ...

Madagascar’s Itremo Massif rises from the island's Central Highlands, where dramatic rocky outcrops and rolling grasslands give way to tapia woodlands and lush gallery forests. These diverse habitats ...

1) Ghost palm of Borneo published after 90 years – Plectocomiopsis hantu It can take several years to describe a new species, and this first example is no exception. Although known to the local ...

Did you know that there could be over 60,000 species of plant not yet known to science? That’s about ten times the number of known mammal species on Earth – and we don’t know what or where they are.

Planning and planting The team at Kew have been monitoring changes to the climate to understand how it will affect our trees. Using data gathered from across West London, including the Gardens’ own ...

Ethiopia, a nation rich in biodiversity and agrobiodiversity, faces a paradox of being one of the most food-insecure countries in the world. We need innovative strategies that can leverage the country ...